My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup by happytoexplain on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:36PM (#49339659)

What AI has done to my job as a software developer is make my personal output higher while taking away almost every ounce of enjoyment, interest, and passion I had for the job. Overnight I went from loving my job to hating my job as much as everybody I know outside of tech hates their jobs.

I won't even get into what it has done to the already-awful experience of working with low-quality contractors.

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Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup by pseudo0 on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:56PM (#49339795)

Effective organizations are busy replacing the low-quality contractors with AI. Seize the opportunity to demonstrate how you can get more done with a $1,000/month token budget than with $10,000/month in contractor salary.

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Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup by solid_fuel on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:28PM (#49340456)

Them: Using AI has made my personal experience with my job much worse, and I dislike using it.

You: Have you considered using more AI? Dance monkey, dance! Show them how good at AI you are!

Genuinely, learn to read the room - or at the very least read the comments you plan to respond to before you respond to them.

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Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup by Dylan16807 on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:40PM (#49340566)

> at the very least read the comments you plan to respond to before you respond to them

Did you see the part where they complained about the experience with low quality contractors becoming extra bad?

A suggestion to get rid of those contractors entirely so now they only have the AI problem might actually be an improvement.

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Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup by alanwreath on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:44AM (#49341370)

That probably is exactly what is being referred to: the combination of low quality contractors who have access to AI means even more slop to wade through.

If AI is a 10xer the question is what is it 10xing.

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Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup by icedchai on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:52PM (#49340175)

"You're absolutely right!"

Seriously, I couldn't have said it better myself.

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Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup by 72deluxe on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:28AM (#49342959)

I found it meant I could produce loads and loads of code I can't mentally keep track of, and therefore have no hope of understanding without ........ a LLM.

Colossal brain rot for me.

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